mismated v provide with an unsuitable mate s not easy to combine harmoniously Usage(s) Unaware or uninterested that the two are mismated, the matchmakers give their efforts much more sense of ravishment than of matrimony. George Kelly's acid portrait of a malicious woman that opens out into a group picture of mismated lives (PTI, April 2). The lovers seem wildly mismated, though perhaps they are only miscast. Synonym(s) mismate ill-sorted incompatible unsuited